diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index bc9d420d9..b7e645d7d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
   * fix pyalmond test DEPS
   * add pytest-tornasync-0.6.0
   * patch locationsharinglib against pinned versions
+  * update linode-api-4.1.9_beta1, fix some problems
 
 2020-09-05
   * repair iglo-1.2.7, drop iglo-1.2.5, abondoned anyway: https://github.com/jesserockz/python-iglo/issues/1#issuecomment-558479023
diff --git a/dev-python/linode-api/Manifest b/dev-python/linode-api/Manifest
index 5e42efc22..18acfe46b 100644
--- a/dev-python/linode-api/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/linode-api/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 DIST linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.tar.gz 45044 BLAKE2B 7765cf013afef1f5ab3cc1965a4f4302775e4ac3d4ad11d8e870a4cf59564de3971fc0ef88b0c31ddc0762187583cabdfe74b56bca3803a227b91eba5b02a769 SHA512 9bb0c3b2bb48d819ea104a39d96eae1b9229f1682f4f89a615ed9bad05afde7cd81f257946cad4ab46c7be806fb48aedbf95658b11b6187707b3fd4fcc9523c7
-EBUILD linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild 853 BLAKE2B 3b34dd5cc46e18ed6d34e6744848690ca4bc22f5a5f527f59aa20594be0956aa12164bf494439f2f9fcb14b95fcda5ee249cb2be096de0a3e60826195f36e094 SHA512 2edcde94fb436d2fc88769d0fee985fde8df71f944fefdb6ac14cbb2c69db981ac2e52a51b1140c3d86d04f017e950eb94692405247243e24e693f6d3c03f079
+EBUILD linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild 1012 BLAKE2B 151b022a1ff470986db6b913c569286c5a3675e12e805f18336ee19125f66329c29d343bc14027ea4eb9700018b8fe34c8a5b9ccfb98a54ccffc725153e5fc15 SHA512 833b047d860da933c4f8f7c07e680348b1b0a52f91eb25534ca270113859940826febb986b0584a166f2e7f3b6f38d1e6daf42d4d425d1e97fb3567fa6c06b22
 MISC metadata.xml 450 BLAKE2B 67533ba57f8e5185079459e6f36cd8efb127a63484a443dd9e281a6cb23b30ebb7b3ff8a3c18f8a4d712642634937b359a96788fb0bb5892364995bd8311a348 SHA512 dbdae905c2fa10359fa0de6f44a3b7a734896fd759683df34b3b46e148757e09440f7e770e9e209db756f08b3298dfdf3afee220ba39991890df67bed8eb9c6b
diff --git a/dev-python/linode-api/linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild b/dev-python/linode-api/linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild
index fb9abb3fc..7a3d8d63a 100644
--- a/dev-python/linode-api/linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/linode-api/linode-api-4.1.9_beta1.ebuild
@@ -21,9 +21,8 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="test"
 
 RDEPEND="dev-python/future[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/enum34[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-DEPEND="${REDEPEND}
+	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+BDEPEND="${REDEPEND}
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	test? (
 		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -32,6 +31,11 @@ DEPEND="${REDEPEND}
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}"
 
+src_prepare() {
+	sed "s/packages=find_packages(exclude=\['contrib', 'docs', 'tests'\])/packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'test', 'test.*'])/g" -i setup.py || die
+	eapply_user
+}
+
 python_test() {
 	nosetests --verbose || die
 	py.test -v -v || die